Recently, Scott MacFarlane, an NBC4 reporter in Washington who covers the Capitol riot prosecutions, tweeted, “As of tonight at least 65 of the Jan. 6 defendants have been charged with ‘entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.’ A counterpunch to those who argued this didn’t appear like ‘an armed insurrection.'”

It was just a tweet, which, by definition, can’t contain much information, but it left open the question: What weapons did they have? What were the arms in the “armed insurrection”?